Joining Moloney as an ‘in’ is Joel Macdonald, who will slot into the Dees feeble defence. Co-captain Jack Grimes is suspended and Stefan Martin is axed.

The Western Bulldogs enter this game with their confidence in tatters.

In the opening two rounds of the AFL they were quite good – they matched it with West Coast for three quarters before going down by 49 points and followed that up with an inspiring 18-point loss to Adelaide at AAMI.

Last week, however, the Dogs lost to St Kilda by 64 points after only amassing 5.10.40 at their favourite, home track of Etihad Stadium.

Brendan McCartney has made three changes to the line-up for today’s clash. Key defender Brian Lake (suspension), impressive youngster Clay Smith (soreness) and second-year player Tom Liberatore (dropped) are the omissions.

Defenders Dale Morris, Lindsay Gilbee and Tom Williams weren’t considered for selection because of injury.

Today I’m tipping the Dees. I think both teams are travelling ordinary but Melbourne play the MCG better than any other ground in the country and they Dees have troubled the Dogs a few times in recent seasons (remembering that at the time the Dogs were premiership challengers and Dees were wooden spoon contenders).

I’ve got hardly any confidence but I’ll tip Melbourne to win this game by 15 points.

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Dogs are now 1-3. Far from impressive today but their class told. Dahlhaus was very good. Cooney kicked a couple. They won this at the clearances.

Melbourne 0-4 and season done. They played for four quarters today. They need to be better at the stoppages. Mark Neeld can work on that. They need to work on their disposal too. There were good signs today. THey kept Boyd quiet, Rivers was good. Moloney and Davey showed good signs and Watts is slowly getting better.